Arrington, Aminta. 2014. Hymns of the everlasting hills: The written word in an oral culture in southwest China. PhD Dissertation, …
Music
Carl, “The Ritualization of the Self”
Carl, Florian. 2014. The Ritualization of the Self in Ghanaian Gospel Music. Ghana Studies 17: 101-129. Excerpt: Considering the prominence …
Bandak, “Of Refrains and Rhythms in Contemporary Damascus”
Bandak, Andreas. 2014. Of Refrains and Rhythms in Contemporary Damascus: Urban Space and Christian-Muslim Coexistence. Current Anthropology DOI: 10.1086/678409 Abstract: Christians in the Middle East have …
Jennings, “Imagining Jesus doing a Whole Lotta Shakin'”
Jennings, Mark. 2014. Imagining Jesus doing a Whole Lotta Shakin’: Pentecostal worship, popular music and the politics of experience. Culture …
Harkness, “Songs of Seoul”
Harkness, Nicholas. 2013. Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea. Berkeley: University of California …
Kidula, “Music in Kenyan Christianity”
Kidula, Jean Ngoya. 2013. Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Publisher’s Description: This sensitive …
Eskridge, “God’s Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America”
Eskridge, Larry. 2013. God’s Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America. New York : Oxford University Press. Publisher’s Description: The Jesus …
Burdick, John. 2013. The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil
Reviewed by James S. Bielo (Miami University). Eight young men gather on a Sao Paulo rooftop – surveying the city’s sprawling jumble of ramshackle houses, the periferia – writing rhymes and composing gospel raps. A congregation is divided as they hear and see a samba band perform
Burdick, “The Color of Sound”
Burdick, John. 2013. The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil. New York: NYU Press. Publisher’s Description: Throughout …
Justice, “As It Was In The Beginning, Is Now, and Ever Shall Be?: Church Organists, Community, and Musical Continuity”
Justice, Deborah (2012) “As It Was In The Beginning, Is Now, and Ever Shall Be?: Church Organists, Community, and Musical …